Soluble Fullerene-Based n-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors Printed by Using a Polydimethylsiloxane Stamp
A polydimethylsiloxane stamp was applied for the first time to the fabrication of n-channel thin-film transistors based on soluble small molecule organic semiconducting materials. The stamping method was found to facilitate film transfer onto a gate insulator surface irrespective of its surface free...
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Published in | ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 836 - 841 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
American Chemical Society
23.03.2011
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Summary: | A polydimethylsiloxane stamp was applied for the first time to the fabrication of n-channel thin-film transistors based on soluble small molecule organic semiconducting materials. The stamping method was found to facilitate film transfer onto a gate insulator surface irrespective of its surface free energy. We used [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and C60-fused N-methylpyrrolidine-meta-dodecyl phenyl (C60MC12) as n-channel materials. The stamped thin-film transistors of C60MC12 achieved a high electron mobility of 0.39 cm2/(V s) and a current on−off ratio of 1 × 107. The mobility of the stamped C60MC12 thin-film transistors did not depend much on the surface free energy of the SiO2 gate insulator with and without surface treatment using a silane-coupling reagent. In particular, the stamped C60MC12 thin-film transistor exhibited a relatively high mobility of 0.1 cm2/(V s) on a high energy surface of untreated SiO2. In addition, a complementary inverter composed of an n-channel and a p-channel stamped thin-film transistor was demonstrated for the first time, which exhibits a maximum gain of 63 at a supply voltage of 50 V. |
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ISSN: | 1944-8244 1944-8252 |
DOI: | 10.1021/am101193y |